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The Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, or TUNL, is a nuclear physics accelerator facility located on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC. It is a consortium of 4 universities, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. It hosts a storage ring Free-Electron Laser (FEL) and the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIGS). The FEL can produce coherent photon beams in a wide range of wavelengths from IR (1060 nm) to VUV (190 nm). The HIGS is the highest-flux Compton gamma-ray source in the world. It generates polarized gamma-ray beams with fluxes of 3 × 1010 g/s and energies from 1 to 100 MeV. TUNL also hosts a tandem Van de Graaff accelerator that has a maximum terminal voltage of 10 MV that can accelerate beams of hydrogen, helium and heavy ions. It can also produce beams of nearly mono-energetic neutrons in the MeV range. Finally, the Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (LENA) produces the world’s most intense proton beams for low-energy measurements and is being upgraded with a 2-MV Singletron accelerator. These facilities are supported by a wide variety of particle detectors. This talk will review the facilities at TUNL and their applications beyond nuclear physics.